Yet another mistake by Dawkins
Armin Shams, PhD, Senior Member of IEEE
National Challenge Fund RI&D, Societal Transformation PgM, AI and Software Development, TU Dublin
Yet another mistake by Dawkins in his debate with John Lennox (both Oxford professors): Believing in God can be abused but "not believing in God" can't.
Answer: Throughout the history, "Not believing in God" for the hardline atheists meant prosecuting those who believe and destroying their heritage and places of worship (done by Marxists, Satanists, politically opportunist atheists, ... throughout the history). The number of people killed and places destroyed by atheists is extremely high. Also, not believing in God makes committing such crimes and mistakes easier as there is no "all-knowing judge" in the world in the eye of the atheists. Almost all the believers in God, Muslim, Christian or Jewish or the rest, believe in a much compassionate God, all-knowing and judging. This belief decreases crime unless the believer is ignorant regarding their belief or they are in a small minority of stupid extremists (which the atheist-run media and activists like to focus on, while ignoring the rest of the facts including the huge amount of crimes done by the atheists in history, and extremely huge amount of contribution to science and humanity by Muslims, Christians, Jews and other believers). There is much atheist dogma in the world we live in, and of course they often prefer to limit the discussion to religious dogma. Let's face it: atheism and what follows is yet another religion. And all the criticism about religion applies to it as well (and there is historical evidence about it).